Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases (González, J., et al.) has published “Repellency of novel catnip (Nepeta cataria) cultivar extracts against Ixodes scapularis and Haemaphysalis longicornis (Acari: Ixodida: Ixodidae)” in November 2022. In an effort to develop natural alternatives for commercial tick repellents, as effective or more effective than DEET, authors investigated the properties of two extracts […]
The Journal of Applied Ecology, (Tran, T., et al.) published “Predicting spatio-temporal population patterns of Borrelia burgdorferi, the Lyme disease pathogen” on September 13, 2022. In this article, authors investigate the population changes of B. burgdorferi from impact of several environmental features. The models used to analyze changes in pathogen populations were developed from collection […]
Cureus, (Sathi S., et al.) published “Ischemic Stroke With Hemorrhagic Conversion in a Case of Lyme Neuroborreliosis” on August 15, 2022. Authors present a case study of a patient (59-year-old male and resident of Michigan) with ischemic stroke and hemorrhagic conversion, who also had a positive serology for Lyme neuroborreliosis. The man was admitted to […]
Scientific Reports, (Szewczyk-Dąbrowska, A., et al.), published “Correlation between COVID-19 severity and previous exposure of patients to Borrelia spp.” on September 24, 2022. Researchers found an association between the severity of the course of COVID infection in patients that also had evidence of past Lyme disease infection. Investigators identified COVID-positive patients that also had exposure […]
Hassan Hakimi, et al., published “Advances in understanding red blood cell modifications by Babesia,” in PLOS Pathogens on September 15, 2022, to further investigate how the parasite invades and multiplies within red blood cells (RBCs) of mammalian hosts.
The Open Journal Of Public Health, (Scott, J.D. et al.), published “Morphological Abnormalities in Blacklegged Tick, Ixodes scapularis, Initiated by Environmental Contaminant,” on August 29, 2002. In this publication authors describe the deformity observed in a tick collected from a songbird during routine bird monitoring activities. The tick, collected from a juvenile American Robin, was […]
Elsevier, (Bobojama, S. B. et al.) published a case report, “Human Borrelia miyamotoi infection: A cause of persistent fever and severe hyperthermia in New England.” on September 6, 2022. This case report describes a patient from southwestern, Connecticut, a 75-year-old male, who was transported by ambulance to the emergency department (ED) after he had been found […]
LDA provided a research grant to Jorge Cervantes, MD, PhD, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center at El Paso in 2020. His research, “Serum Transcriptomic Analysis of Human Monocytes Upon Exposure to Acute & Convalescent Sera From Lyme Disease Patients,” was accepted for a Poster Presentation at Cytokines 2022 Hybrid: 10th Annual Meeting of the […]
Current Problems in Cardiology,(Wang, C., et al.), published “Long-term Outcomes in Treated Lyme Carditis” in *October 2022. Authors provide results of an observational study of post treatment outcomes for 7 patients that had serologically confirmed Lyme carditis. *Version of Record August 24, 2022. Patients in the study ranged from 14-56 years old. Six of the […]
Fluids and Barriers of the CNS, (Thompson, D. et al.) published “The choroid plexus and its role in the pathogenesis of neurological infections” on September 10, 2022. This review article summarizes the current knowledge of the choroid plexus and presents the new understanding of the role the choroid plexus plays as in the pathogenesis of […]
